Diigo How To be Me (Nikolas Sieg)

REFLECTION 1. I think that I did good, just stuttered at certain spots. 2. Yes, I think that the audience will be able to follow my steps. 3. The easy part was showing what to click, the hard part was trying to explain to the people what Diigo is for. 4. I can use screen casts to capture me and my friends playing video games, or for more how to videos. 5. I think this was the best project that we have done all year; it is something that i am considering using in the future.

Screen-o-matic

My Digital Story: Bucket List

Interview

My Dad
Where do you work? Wolverine Tower in Ann Arbor, MI.
What is your position? Social Network Tech Developer at The University of Michigan.
What kind of tasks do you do? Builds social media feeds. Is an iPhone developer. Makes sure that people take advantage of using social media to convey information.
What type of education was needed? 2+ years of college.
Do you enjoy your job? Yes, it is a challenging to work with other departments within the University.  Work/life balance is a huge benefit within his current department, and he likes being emerged in all the technology. Prior to 2013 my father was in IT for 12 years at UM.
My Mom
Where do you work? Schindler Elevators in Toledo, OH.
What is your position? Assembly Technician.
What kind of tasks do you do? Prep, assemble, and package circuitboards for elevators and escalators.
What type of education was needed? 2+ years of college.
Do you enjoy your job? Yes, it is challenging and is ever changing.

Emerging Technology Part1

I decide to do my research on A Faster Fourier Transform, which is about the speed of how our computers react to things happening. A group at MIT have discovered a breakthrough in algorithms. After reading this article I can assume that our internet and computer speeds are going to increase. The thing that surprised me the most was finding out that their is a link between algorithms and how fast our computers are. I also feel that if we can some how create an even more efficient algorithm, then who knows. Maybe we won't have to wait at all for a web page to load, it will just load in a fraction of the time.

An emerging technology that is still used today from the year 2009 are memory chips. Memory chips are now in game consoles and in computers, and are able to store a couple thousand times more then before. I feel that soon though, flash drives and memory chips are going to become obsolete do to cloud storage now.

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Edward Goodrich Acheson

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Edward Goodrich Acheson life story Script

Edward Goodrich Acheson was born in the year 1856 and was a great chemist/inventor for his time period. Edward Acheson had a rough childhood. He was forced to drop out of school at the age of 16 to help around the house, due to the death of his father. He had committed all of his free time, as a kid, to experiment with electrical science. In the year 1880 he had built a battery and even tried to sell it to Thomas Edison. Edison then hires Acheson to help with his electrical and other scientific experiments.

After about 4 years he left Edison to become an independent inventor. In the year 1891 he obtained a power plant company to help test his experiments. In the year 1894 he had created a new adhesive called carborundum  which is clay with carbon atoms altered into it, and created The Carborundum Company. His company was known for creating knife sharpeners, grind wheels, whet stones, and powdered abrasive. In the year 1901 he was fired from the presidency of his company due to his lack in using money economically. He had a very loving and supportive family. He had his loving wife Margret Acheson and seven children, named Edward Jr., George, Howard, John, Jean, Margret Irene, and Sarah.

Finally in the year 1901 he passed away. The Carborundum Company is still around it just has been sold and renamed to many times to count. Even after his death we still use the carborundum bars to sharpen knifes and swords, we still use grind wheels to sand and sharpen large objects. I guess what I am trying to say is that even though he is dead he is remembered and his legacy continues. He successfully patented about 70 different inventions of ores and other substances. Without these inventions the industrial era might not have happened when it was supposed to we would not have the technology we have today. This was my story of Edward Goodrich Acheson's life.

Works Cited Page

Ed. "Edward Goodrich Acheson." Chemical Heritage Foundation. Chemical Heritage Foundation, n.d. Web.                  

6 Feb 2013. http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/online-resources/chemistry-inhistory/themes/electrochemistry/acheson.asp&xgt

Ed. "Edward Goodrich Acheson." About.com. About.com, n.d. Web. 6 Feb 2013. http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blacheson.htm

Ed. "Edward G. Acheson." NNDB tracking the entire world. NNDB, n.d. Web. 6 Feb 2013. http://www.nndb.com/people/335/000129945/

Flickr Reveiw

I think the web site flickr is a great way for photographers to share their work with the public. It is also a fun way to connect with your friends and family. It is easy to upload photos and add photos to galleries. I think that the public domain has a positive effect on this site tho. For example people can see a photo they like, then visit that photographers site and purchase some  for their own personal uses.

RSS Feed Sudscriptions

http://www.cnn.com/
http://www.gizmag.com
http://bhsa576.blogspot.com
http://bhslang2012t1h4.blogspot.com
http://dillpikle.blogspot.com
http://makingyoutypeoutareallylongwebadress.blogspot.com
https://support.steampowered.com
http://www.monroenews.com

I.D Theft Power Point Response

I can not believe that I.D theft is the fastest growing crime in America! The other day we had Deputy Krupp come in and speak to my computers class. He showed us the different ways our I.D gets stolen and how to prevent it. He also taught us about online safety and not to give out are "ASL" (age, sex, location). People could use this information to find where you live and stalk you. I will continue to go online as always, just now I know somethings to look out for. I know not to click on links saying, "You have won a new iPad"! I now know to purchase items from the main site, this  can reduce the chance of I.D theft and not to click on spam emails and entering any personal information. I found Deputy Krupp's power point to be useful, but most of the stuff he taught us seemed to be common sense. 

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MIT's Folding Car

The Massachusetts Institution of Technology has been working on a fold-able car! It is now being released in Europe now to test to see if the market fill succeed in this car. The electric car discussion is about to be pushed over the edge do to the invention of this car. The "Hiroko" will only take up about one third of the space compared to its gas powered counter part. The major downside with the car is that it only has a 75 mile range, not good at all for distance travel.  http://mattforte.hubpages.com/hub/Future-Technology-2013

Christmas Break

This Christmas Break I did some fun things. My family and I went to Levis Commons for the first time and did some shopping for friends and family. On Christmas Day I opened my presents, this is what i received. I got A turtle Beach X11 Gaming headset, Beats by Dre Solo HD headphones, Jack Links Beef Jerky, and Mountain Dew Gamer Fuel Double XP for Halo 4. Later on Christmas I had a little get together with my grandparents and we exchanged some more presents. Then my dad and I used our saved up money to buy parts for our gaming computer that we are going to build! I used some of the money I received to buy video games via "Steam"(A pc gaming site).On New Years Eve we did not do much. We watched the ball drop, and then went to bed. Then the last day of Winter break had arrived.I did not want Break to end because I was having fun with my family and I did not want it to stop. That was what I did on my break.

Christmas Wordle